James Pember
About me
I'm a senior product leader and two-time founder with 10+ years in SaaS. Currently VP of Product at Komo Technologies where I lead product, strategy, and AI initiatives.
Before Komo, I started Sweden's biggest English-language startup blog (Swedish Startup Space) and later sold it to a media company called Breakit, then I co-founded an enterprise SaaS company called Sparta which was acquired by Lime Technologies (STO:LIME) and later helped Reason Studios move from perpetual licenses to subscriptions, leading the launch of Reason+ and scaling it from $0 to $10M in ARR.
I love writing about technology, startups and product on my blog and try to keep my knowledge fresh and up-to-date by tinkering with as many side-projects as I can on the side. Currently I'm building a lot of personal software and tools using AI coding agents. See some of them on my projects page.
Things I believe:
- "The life of a pessimist is easy but dreary. The life of an optimist is hard but exciting."1
- "Being easy to work with is an underrated skill"
- "All returns in life come from compound interest in long-term games"2